A brief Sunday round-up.

Greetings from a hot as hell Yokohama. It’s mid-30s here and that is just wrong for the first week of September.

Anyway, there isn’t a whole lot going on really. The international break is a pain in the arse and is made worse by the fact that Spain play games because, as now seems the norm, quotes emanate out of various publications and sources regarding Cesc. If the current quotes are accurate and not distorted by translation, it is clear that Cesc is still at the club because he was told that he would not be allowed to leave, not that that fact was ever in doubt.

There are two ways that you can look at that, if you take it in a negative way it means that Cesc has his heart set on playing for Barcelona and may not be able to fully focus on Arsenal, particularly as the end of the season approaches. However, looking at it in a positive way, you could also say that it is great that the club stood up to Barcelona and fought to keep a player that is key to the club and also the fact that Cesc accepted the club’s stance on the matter and didn’t try to agitate for a move should be commended.

I prefer to look at it in a positive light and I don’t think that Cesc will ever give anything less than 100% while representing our club. So, let’s just enjoy watching him play football while he is still playing for us. Of course, the newspapers are trying to spin it as he is being held against his will by Arsenal. We just have to be smart enough to see through that nonsense.

Elsewhere, John Lukic has been talking about how the club really ought to have signed a top class goalkeeper during the summer. You won’t find many that will argue with those sentiments, but there isn’t a lot we can do about it now. We should just accept that Almunia will be our no1 for the whole season. I just hope that he doesn’t get injured because I would cry if Lukarse were to play for any extended period of time.

Adebayor has shown yet again how much of a tool he is by claiming that if Man Shitty win ten games in a row people will begin to believe that they are a bigger club than Arsenal. This from the man who was trying to get out of the place just 2wks ago. Fool.

That’s about that for today. Hopefully you will begin to see the blog appearing in the NewsNow feed from this week onwards as things seems to have been sorted on that front, fingers crossed.